The wind was out of the North and the sky was clear this morning as Jackson and I set out on Lake Chicot. We headed back to the same old places where we have been catching fish but they were not very fired up about feeding. We caught a few small ones on the usual suspects, Yozuri, Red Eye Shad, and various small shallow running crankbaits.  When we had exhausted all of our spots, we went over to the deep side and ran the side scan depthfinder to see if there was any structure out from the docks and close to the drop off. The side scan is pretty hard to see in the boat with the glare from the sun so I saved some on the SD card to bring home and look at on the computer screen. Here are two from the deep side.

If you click on them they will enlarge and you can better see what I am describing.  In the first one you can see two docks with a few fish around them and scattered fish in between. Stretching from the top to bottom on the left-center of the screen you can see a line where the drop off starts. There also  appears to be something in the upper right between the docks with three fish on it. The second one shows a dock that we passed with something  that was almost under the boat when we passed over. It has small fish on the left end and one big one on the right end. Then from the dock to toward the top of the screen is all kind of underwater structure with a few fish on it.  After we did the depthfinder work we returned to our spots to try again. At two it was nothing but at the third there were some fish. The next photo is of part of that spot. The depth says 1.1 but it’s more like 3.8. I could adjust the sensitivity and make it read right but then the fish would not show up. That happens only in water under 5 feet.

You can see a cypress tree on the bottom left that is cutting off the sound and making what looks like a shadow. On the right side are submerged small willows and weeds. They make an underwater point right behind the tree. Also behind the tree are some fish that I would bet are bass and there are several more toward the top of the screen. We caught some fish here with a tailspinner and a worm and  ended up with 40 bass total.